Join experts for a fascinating discussion on how emancipation following the civil war impacted the American landscape and the continuing legacy of this pivotal point in history. Featured speakers are: Dr. Elijah Gaddis, the Hollifield Associate Professor of Southern History and co-director of the Community Histories Workshop, and affiliate faculty in Africana Studies at Auburn University. Elijah's work focuses on the spatial, material and cultural histories of the 19th- and 20th-century South. Dr. Rinaldo Walcott, Professor, Carl V. Granger Chair in Africana and American Studies, and Chair of the Department of Africana and American Studies at the University at Buffalo (SUNY). Rinaldo researches the cultural expression of Black life, focusing on transnational, diasporic, and national crosscurrents of Black creativities. Eliza Jane Franklin (PhD (c)), self-proclaimed "Southern Belle Radical” whose work focuses "heritage lynching" and "heritage lynching sites" and provides a framework for understanding the systematic erasure and control of cultural heritage across landscapes, artifacts, cultural forms. Eliza Jane has a B.A. in African-American Studies and a Master's in Urban Planning from UCLA, a Master's in Heritage Conservation from USC, and a forthcoming History PhD from Auburn University.